Word: sided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just this desire to be on the right side--or at least not on the wrong side--all the time that makes the Council the laughing stock that it is. An effective student government, however, can't play it so safe, so often...
...marveled at the relatively small strip of cargo tube that held the plane together. In 1981 a 737 flown by Far Eastern Air Transport was not so lucky. It tore completely apart over Taiwan, dooming all 110 aboard. In both accidents, the plane's skin fractured on the top side just behind the cockpit...
...three presidential candidates are dropping in on day-care centers to dramatize their concern. Jackson proclaims in every speech, "We can either fund Head Start and child care and day care on the front side of life, or welfare and jail care on the back side of life." He offers a program of federal subsidies and tax credits calculated to extend day care to 2.6 million additional children, more than double those who would be helped by the most ambitious proposal advanced by other Democrats...
...Reagans' enthusiasm for astrology comes as a small, slightly goofy revelation, an old Hollywood side of them that has turned up in Washington, a detail endearing and unbidden and embarrassing. Ronald Reagan has always been a lucky man. Perhaps he and his wife find that the zodiac is a means to codify, organize and predict his luck. Movie stars are suckers for astrology, partly because their business is even less rational than the rest of American life. Great egos need great horoscopes...
...North Vietnamese. In an afterthought, Hayden admits that he was "blind to the core of authoritarianism" in Hanoi. It is a "yes, but" apology, balanced with renewed assaults on the flaws in U.S. policy, and it appears to carry a subliminal message: We radicals were on the side of the angels; we did not deserve to be wrong...